Once a dark, clumsy tapir stared at us from a gap in the bushes, and then lumbered away through the forest; once, too, the yellow, sinuous form of a great puma whisked amid the brushwood, and its green, baleful eyes glared hatred at us over its tawny shoulder.

Finally we pulled the boats up among the brushwood and spent the night on the bank of the river.

The huge trees of the alluvial Amazonian plain gave place to the Phoenix and coco palms, growing in scattered clumps, with thick brushwood between.

Soldiers scattered over the whole place were dragging logs and brushwood and were building shelters with merry chatter and laughter; around the fires sat others, dressed and undressed, drying their shirts and leg bands or mending boots or overcoats and crowding round the boilers and porridge cookers.

Another former Halifax, Huddersfield player, Terry Brushwood, will be on duty in a side that includes former Walker Cup player Cec Bloice, a past Yorkshire and England captain, and past Yorkshire champion Gareth Evans.

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